My first northern pygmy-owl sighting, on the border of a wooded property near Columbia Falls on Saturday, Jan. 18. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) I’ve been searching for a northern pygmy-owl for the ...

A hummingbird alerted me. It darted about very erratically rather than the smooth flying while taking nectar from flowers. And it wasn’t darting around flowers but zig-zagging around like a fly over ...

“We call them a tree cancer — when there’s an odd branch sticking up or a bump out on a trunk, that’s usually an owl.” This is also the time to remind humans with their cameras to curb their curiosity ...